Oh, and I now figured out why I can't get Julia to pre-compile the modules 
I want. Apparently you have to be building it from source...

Now I'll go and give that a try.

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Friday, 24 October 2014 15:47:58 UTC+2, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
> Yes, it seems to work. Apparently my Julia directory is 
>  "/usr/bin/../share/julia/base/", so that's one problem solved.  Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> On 24 October 2014 14:53, Till Ehrengruber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You cuold look where your julia base library is located for example by
>>
>> functionloc(push!)
>> ("/usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.3.1/bin/../share/julia/base/array.jl",464)
>>
>>
>> I'm on OS X but it should work on Ubuntu as well
>>
>> Am Freitag, 24. Oktober 2014 14:31:32 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Carrera:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am running Ubuntu with Julia 0.3.1 installed from PPA. I want to 
>>> figure out where my Julia base directory is so I can create a userimg.jl 
>>> file so I can pre-compile some modules that I use often. I got the idea 
>>> from here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Gtk.jl/blob/master/doc/precompilation.md
>>>
>>> The problem is that I cannot figure out where my jula/base directory is. 
>>> It appears to be nowhere. I have two candidate directories:
>>>
>>> /usr/share/julia
>>> /usr/local/julia
>>>
>>> My Julia version is 0.3.1. The file /usr/share/julia/VERSION says it 
>>> is 0.3.0-prerelease. On the other hand, /var/lib/dpkg/info/julia.list 
>>> seems to say that /usr/share/julia is the correct directory. So that 
>>> doesn't make sense. The other directory --- /usr/local/julia --- does 
>>> not have any VERSION file or anything that I could that would tell me what 
>>> version of Julia it is for. I tried adding the "userimg.jl" file to 
>>> both directories, but that didn't do anything. Even more strangely, neither 
>>> directory one seems to be required for Julia to run. Look:
>>>
>>>
>>> $ sudo mv /usr/share/julia $HOME/usr-share-julia
>>> $ sudo mv /usr/local/julia $HOME/usr-local-julia
>>> $ 
>>> $ julia --version
>>> julia version 0.3.1
>>> $ 
>>> $ julia
>>>                _
>>>    _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
>>>   (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
>>>    _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "help()" for help.
>>>   | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
>>>   | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.1 (2014-09-21 21:30 UTC)
>>>  _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official http://julialang.org release
>>> |__/                   |  x86_64-linux-gnu
>>>
>>> julia>
>>>
>>>
>>> In other words, neither of those directories seems to be needed to run 
>>> Julia. So, I am completely stuck. I have two "base" directories, 
>>> neither of which seems to do anything.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me out?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel.
>>>
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> When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase 
> that means it's not fun to do.
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